US Patent Issued on Aug. 5 for "Heavy equipment hazard warning apparatus and system and method for use of same" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,378,752, issued on Aug. 5.

"Heavy equipment hazard warning apparatus and system and method for use of same" was invented by Jim D. Wiethorn (Sugar Land, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heavy equipment hazard warning apparatus for a piece of heavy equipment at a site and a system and method for use of the same are disclosed. In one embodiment of the heavy equipment hazard warning apparatus, the location of the heavy equipment is monitored by the heavy equipment warning apparatus and analyzed with reference to a hazard safety site plan of the site that identifies a hazard such as existing utilities, for example. An alert notification...